Subject: Re: DHCP client

From: Ralph Droms <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:17:01 -0500

This is basically correct (I'm guessing you meant "DHCP server" in C).  In 
D, the client can continue to use its IP address and participate in TCP 
sessions until the lease expires - even if the client is unable to contact 
a DHCP server.

- Ralph Droms

At 09:27 PM 2/24/00 -0600, Michael Schneider wrote:
>Todd -
>   My WINTEL experience in this matter is thus:
>
>If:
>A) Client receives lease (lease period is 90 days), and
>B) DHCP server dies, and
>C) DHCP stay dead for more than 90 days.
>Then:
>D) At each start up and at every decaying half-life interval,
>the client will poll the nonexistent DHCP server for a renewal
>of the lease it has. If the lease expires before the DHCP service
>is restored, the client should lose its IP address, and continue
>to periodically broadcast DHCP requests until it receives a response.